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[Link] Stop Saying the Tank Is Obsolete Just Because Russia Sucks at Using Them
Read: 19/4/2022 www.vice.com
Russia has lost almost 500 tanks in its invasion of Ukraine, according to independent battlefield researchers at the open source intelligence group Oryx. According to Ukraine, the number is closer to 700.
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[Link] British man fighting in Ukraine forced to surrender to Russians
Read: 13/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Aiden Aslin, from Newark, joined Ukraine’s marines in 2018 but has told friends and family that he and his comrades cannot hold out any longer as the Russians gradually tighten their grip on the southern port city.
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[Link] Ukraine Accuses Russia of Using WhatsApp Bot Farm to Ask Military to Surrender
Read: 3/4/2022 www.vice.com
The message, according to the press release, said: “The outcome of events is predetermined! Be prudent and refuse to support nationalism and leaders of the country who discredited themselves and already fled the capital!!!”
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[Link] Sean Penn calls for billionaire to step up and buy aircraft for Ukraine
Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Hollywood actor Sean Penn has called for a billionaire to come forward and buy two squadrons of F-15 or F-16 aircraft for Ukraine in an unlikely attempt to tip the scales against the Russian invaders in the five-week-old war.
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[Link] What is Australia's troop carrier the Bushmaster?
Read: 3/4/2022 www.abc.net.au
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's appeal for Australian-made armoured vehicles has been answered, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison confirming Bushmasters will be sent to assist the fight against Russian forces. The vehicles are designed for all environments and are blast resistant.
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[Link] U.S. Police Have So Much Extra Gear They're Sending It to Ukraine
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Police departments around the U.S. are donating tactical gear to Ukraine, whose annual defense budget is smaller than the NYPD’s.
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[Link] Zelenskyy Says Ukrainian Forces Are Ready to ‘Fight to the Last Soldier’
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian armed forces are ready to fight as long as it takes to roll back Russia’s invasion.
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[Link] How Ukraine is using a powerful weapon that is too difficult for Russians to detect
Read: 9/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Ukraine's allies have sent some 17,000 anti-tank weapons into the battlefield, in a bid to help fighters bog down the Russian offensive.
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[Link] Bellingcat's Eliot Higgins Explains Why Ukraine Is Winning the Information War
Read: 9/3/2022 time.com
The ability of anyone with a phone or laptop to see Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unfold in almost real time—and to believe what they’re seeing—comes to us thanks to the citizens operating what’s known as open-source intelligence (OSINT).
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[Link] The Antonov An-225 Seems To Have Been Destroyed After All
Read: 3/3/2022 hackaday.com
Something that probably unites most Hackaday readers is a love of machines, particularly unique or interesting ones.
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[Link] Ukraine and Russia end second round of peace talks in regret, as reports dispute port city's fall
Read: 3/3/2022 www.abc.net.au
Ukraine says that a second round of ceasefire talks with Russia had not yielded the results Kyiv hoped for, but the sides had discussed humanitarian corridors and agreed to speak again. Both sides said they wanted a possible ceasefire for evacuating civilians through humanitarian corridors.
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